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| 686b1f5 | When Brian Eno approached the father of Anthea Norman-Taylor for permission to marry her, he was told, "What you have to ask yourself is, 'Would I wish this woman to be the grandmother of my grandchildren?" | Stewart Brand | ||
| aeb8368 | As a rule of thumb, the sample size must be at least 30 for the central limit theorem to hold true.) This | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 3c1f515 | Bateson proposed that the metaphor of "mother Earth" is no longer accurate or helpful. Human impact on nature is now so complete and irreversible that we're better off thinking of the planet as if it were our first child. It will be here after us. Its future is unknown and uncontrollable. We are forced to plan ahead for it. Our first obligation is to keep it from harm. We are learning from it how to be decent parents." | Stewart Brand | ||
| b42f379 | During the twentieth century, communist governments killed some 100 million of their own people in peacetime, either by repression or by famine. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| bcd5df8 | Research shows that takers harbor doubts about others' intentions, so they monitor vigilantly for information that others might harm them, treating others with suspicion and distrust. These low expectations trigger a vicious cycle, constraining the development and motivation of others. Even when takers are impressed by another person's capabilities or motivation, they're more likely to see this person as a threat, which means they're less w.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| f95519b | Three decades of research show that receiving support from colleagues is a robust antidote to burnout. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 7be5d05 | Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 6e96cae | what economic benefit smokers provide for nonsmokers (they die earlier, leaving more Social Security and pension benefits for the rest of us), | Charles Wheelan | ||
| fc304a8 | Consider a nonstatistics example: Did the U.S. invasion of Iraq make America safer? There is only one intellectually honest answer: We will never know. The reason we will never know is that we do not know--and cannot know--what would have happened if the United States had not invaded Iraq. True, the United States did not find weapons of mass destruction. But it is possible that on the day after the United States did not invade Iraq Saddam H.. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 54470c4 | the most dangerous kind of job stress stems from having "low control" over one's responsibilities." | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 5f23ea3 | Regression analysis is the hydrogen bomb of the statistics arsenal. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 9d2c2ce | The authors propose "a New Deal for globalization--one thatlinks engagement with the world economy to a substantial redistribution of income." Remember, this isn't hippy talk. These are the capitalists who see angry workers with pitchforks loitering outside the gates of a very profitable factory, and they are making a very pragmatic calculation: Throw these people some food (and maybe some movie tickets and beer) before we all end up worse .. | welfare | Charles Wheelan | |
| f8e45b2 | North | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 08cacfb | The [Value at Risk model] was like a faulty speedometer, which is arguably worse than no speedometer at all. If you place too much faith in the broken speedometer, you will be oblivious to other signs that your speed is unsafe. In contrast, if there is no speedometer at all, you have no choice but to look around for clues as to how fast you are really going. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| f1679a7 | Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| af897cb | The good news is that these descriptive statistics give us a manageable and meaningful summary of the underlying phenomenon. That's what this chapter is about. The bad news is that any simplification invites abuse. Descriptive statistics can be like online dating profiles: technically accurate and yet pretty darn misleading. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 0d234bb | If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 3e962b2 | Is the journey still worthwhile if the mountain turns out to be enshrouded in fog at the top? | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 8def26a | Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| b16c2e3 | The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw On a cool fall evening in 2008, four students set out to revolutionize an industry. Buried in loans, they had lost and broken eyeglasses and were outraged at how much it cost to replace them. One of them had been wearing the same damaged pair for f.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 5715971 | Here is one of the most important things to remember when doing research that involves regression analysis: Try not to kill anyone. You can even put a little Post-it note on your computer monitor: "Do not kill people with your research." | Charles Wheelan | ||
| a6b8079 | Statistics is like a high-caliber weapon: helpful when used correctly and potentially disastrous in the wrong hands. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| d9f366c | The world is producing more and more data, ever faster and faster. Yet, as the New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge."3* Statistics is the most powerful tool we have for using information to some meaningful end," | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 592bea8 | The democratic process will always favor small, well-organized groups at the expense of large, diffuse groups. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| ff336df | Less obviously, concern for the environment is a luxury good. Wealthy Americans are willing to spend more money to protect the environment as a fraction of their incomes than are less wealthy Americans. The same relationship holds true across countries; wealthy nations devote a greater share of their resources to protecting the environment than do poor countries. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| b3fdec1 | ethanol may actually make some kinds of air pollution worse. It evaporates faster than pure gasoline, contributing to ozone problems in hot temperatures. A 2006 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded that ethanol does reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12 percent relative to gasoline, but it calculated that devoting the entire U.S. corn crop to make ethanol would replace only a small fraction of Ame.. | economics | Charles Wheelan | |
| 7f2bbc1 | Why did the entrepreneur cross the road? Because he could make more money on the other side. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| e9979b9 | A Random Walk Down Wall Street. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| b58c4f8 | Remember, human capital embodies not only classroom training but also perseverance, honesty, creativity--virtues that lend themselves to finding work.) Some | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 4bb4b7c | Tensing your abs will amplify the intensity of the contraction of any muscle in your body. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 3e941dc | As economist Joseph Schumpeter famously observed, originality is an act of creative destruction. Advocating for new systems often requires demolishing the old way of doing things, and we hold back for fear of rocking the boat. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 2d782a8 | Vodka at night. Pickle juice in the morning (the best thing for a hangover). Throwing some kettlebells around between this hangover and the next one. A Russian's day well spent. The 'kettlebell' or girya is a cast iron weight which looks like a basketball with a suitcase handle. It is an old Russian toy. As the 1986 Soviet Weightlifting Yearbook put it, "It is hard to find a sport that has deeper roots in the" | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 939e965 | Russians are easy to spot, even if you dress them like Buckingham Palace guards. They are "the white people who look seriously ticked off," as Army Ranger vet Ellis Jones, RKC, has put it on our forum." | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 2bb6ca8 | Understanding is a delaying tactic...," as one novelist put it. "Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of water want to understand. Other people jump in and get wet." | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 3fa68c0 | Push from your armpit, rather than your shoulder. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| e0d63db | The establishment's reply is that dissenting students are bent, not on positive innovation, but on negative disruption. Against this, however, it can be argued that these two processes are very closely related and that the former only degenerates into the latter when it finds itself blocked. | Desmond Morris | ||
| a1d8df8 | The word 'love' is, in fact, the way we commonly describe the emotional feelings that accompany the imprinting process. | Desmond Morris | ||
| 6cefed0 | Pretty soon three sleeping bags formed a triangle in the master bedroom. The father was the hypotenuse. The girl asked him to brush out her hair, which he did while the boy ate a tangerine, peeling it up close to his face, inhaling the mist. Then he held each segment to the light to find seeds. In his lap, cat paws fluttered like dreaming eyes. "What" | Amy Hempel | ||
| 22f638c | When luck plays a part in determining the consequences of your actions, you don't want to study success to learn what strategy was used but rather study strategy to see whether it consistently led to success. | Michael J. Mauboussin | ||
| 0b343e7 | He thought the library door would never open again, but that he would be left to live out the rest of his life rooted to the spot on the library carpet, afraid to move a muscle lest the house fall upon his shoulders. He deliberately shrugged them and shuffled his feel just to prove to himself that it could be done. | anxiousness imaginative thoughtful | Mary Balogh | |
| 634a6f2 | Some things," she said, "are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham." | Mary Balogh | ||
| eafa998 | I will not be what I was made, but what I make. | Max Barry | ||
| d40e642 | Tell me what you think love is! I seriously want to know!" "Okay," Eliot said. "It's defining yourself through the eyes of another. It's coming to know a human being on a level so intimate that you lose any meaningful distinction between you, and you carry the knowledge that you are insufficient without her every day for twenty years, until she drives an animal transport at you, and you shoot her. It's that." | Max Barry | ||
| 2ad6549 | And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone. | Max Barry |